One - Armed Bandit

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:53:32
Personnel: Line Horntveth (vocals, flute, tuba, glockenspiel, percussion); Lars Horntveth (guitar, lap steel guitar, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, piano, keyboards, programming); Andreas Mjos (guitar, vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, percussion); Stian Westerhus (electric guitar, 12-string guitar, baritone guitar, harp, percussion); Martin Horntveth (mandolin harp, psaltery, drums, drum machine, temple blocks, percussion, bells, programming); Mathias Eick (trumpet, French horn, piano, keyboards, upright bass); Erik Johannessen (trombone); Oystein Moen (piano, organ, synthesizer, percussion); Even Ormestad (keyboards, glockenspiel, percussion); Jorgen Traeen (programming). Audio Mixers: Chris Sansom ; Mike Hartung; John McEntire. Recording information: Cabin Recorders and Wallpaper, Oslo, Norway (12/2008). Photographer: Morten Spaberg. Arrangers: Jaga Jazzist; Jorgen Traeen. Jaga Jazzist's least jazz-rooted, most prog album to date, One-Armed Bandit is not associable with Tortoise and 2000s-era Stereolab merely for the assistance of John McEntire, who mixed it and is credited with analog synth processing. Echoing, at various points, both bands at their most rocking, Baroque, and searching, One-Armed Bandit dazzles early on. Throughout the 13 minutes that make up the title track and the following "Bananfleur Overalt," the listener is pulled through a suspenseful succession of passages, like a score to a Mediterranean tropical cyclone, that work in tight-riffing bass clarinet, zipping vibraphone, buzzing guitar, sighing pedal steel, dancing harpsichord, and even some distant skronk-sax over galloping and tapping rhythms that switch time signatures with an oddly elegant twitchiness. Later portions of the album are larded with so many graceless, attention-deficit hazards that it's unknown exactly what the band (or is that "groop"?) was attempting to accomplish -- perhaps a challenge or, more specifically, instrumental paeans to Frank Zappa and Mars Volta with horn charts. ~ Andy Kellman